PA Governor's Council for Sexual Minorities

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "Gay Prisoners: Should We Care Just Because They're Gay?" (p. 2)
• "Rural Caucus Dissolved" (p. 3) "Defense Department Changes Policy" (p. 7)
• "Rural Resources" (p. 9)
• "Gay Rights Symposium" (p. 13)
• "Gay Issues in New Civil Rights Survey" (p. 18)
• "Gayton (PA) Mayor Swears to God" (p. 20)
• "A.D.A. for Gay Rights" (p. 22)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "State-Wide Gay-Support Group Announced" (p. 2)
• "Council Appointments" (p. 4)
• "Rights Ordinance Introduced in State College" (p. 5)
• "Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Gay Case" (p. 6)
• "Anita's Source" (p. 11)
• "Rural Resources" (p. 15)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "State of the Publication" (p. 2)
• "Gay Pride Week Rapped" (p. 2)
• "House Condemns Thornburgh for 'Gay Pride Week'" (p. 2)
• "Switchboard Anniversay" (p. 3)
• "Penn Acts to Prohibit Discrimination against Gays" (p. 3)
• "HOPS Blue Jeans Day" (p. 3)
• "Gay Pride Week Proclamation" (p. 4)
• "Anti-Gay Bill Proposed" (p. 5)
• "Culture Shock" (p. 10)
• "Aries Portfolio" (p. 11)
• "PA Lawmakers Get No Respect" (p. 13)
• "Gay Professionals' Licenses Safe" (p. 18)
• "Human Rights Resolution" (p. 18)
• "When Lady Gay Was Queen of Conestoga" (p. 18)
• "Sex and the Government Worker" (p. 19)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "State Gay Support Group Formed" (p. 3)
• "Voter Registration Starts in Pennsylvania" (p. 5)
• "March Planned in Allentown" (p. 6)
• "Anita to Appear at Bloomsburg Fair" (p. 6)

This issue is missing some articles that appear to have been cut out at some point.

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "Lancaster City Council Votes against Anti-Porn Law" (p. 3)
• "Centre County Minorities Form Democratic Club" (p. 3)
• "Bill Gray for Congress" (p. 4)
• "Era Extension Drive" (p. 6)
• "Gubanatorial Candidates on Gay Issues" (p. 7)
• "Impressions of Pride '78" (p. 9)
• "Bruce Voeller" (p. 12)
• "Tom Wilson: They Laugh When He Sits Down at the Piano" (p. 14)
• "Tony Silvestre: Why Are You Gay-Because I'm Lucky" (p. 16)
• "Wanted: Volunteers for Research Project" (p. 17)
• "Report from Millersville" (p. 17)
• "Ecumenical Conference" (p. 18)
• "N.O.W. in Lancaster" (p. 19)
• "Rural Resouces" (p. 23)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

- National Gay Blue Jeans Day Held in State College (p.4)
- Allentown Battle: State Conference in Limbo (p.4)
- PA Rural Gay Resource List (p.10)
- Martin Rock (p.14)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (p.24)
- PDE Supports Affirmative Action for Gays (p.25)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

• Sodomy Repeal Lacks Support in Pennsylvania (p.4)
• Council Files Report of First Year Progress (p.4)
• Gay Activists Beaten (p.5)
• MCC Community Center (p.5)
• PA Rural Gay Resource List (p.11)
• The Flordia Follies Finale (p.12)
• Gains Made on State College Campuses (p.22)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "Aid Sought in Contracts Wording by State Minority Council" (p. 2)
• National Bill (p. 2)
• "Senate Bill 83" (p. 9)
• "PA Rural Gay Resource List" (p. 10)
• "Gay Couple Denied Use of Campus Chapel" (p. 22)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "State Council for Sexual Minorities Establishes Complaint Center" (p. 2)
• "Equality for Gays Voted at West Chester State" (p. 2)
• "Rural Caucus Meets in State College" (p. 7)
• "Villanova University's Gays Still Deep in Closet" (p. 7)
• "So There Are No Sexual Minority Materials in Textbooks" (p. 10)
• "Reasons for Repeal of Pennsylvania's Voluntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse (Sodomy) Statute" (p. 15)
• H.O.W. [Homophiles of Williamsport] (p. 17)
• " 'Prissy' Off-Stage in Marietta" (p. 22)
• "Rural Gay Resource List" (p. 23)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Noteworthy news in this issues:

• "Rural Caucus" (p. 2)
• "Coming Out" (p. 5)
• "Dyke Cooper" (p. 6)
• "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (p. 8)
• "Rural Gay Resource List" (p. 15)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

• In the News (p.3)
• Rural Caucus Report (p.6)
• "James Dean: Was He or Wasn't He?" (p.5)
• Stonewall Remembered (p.10)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. This is an anniversary issue. Noteworthy news in this issue includes:

• "State Hiring Regulations" (p.3)
• "Dyke Cooper" (p. 5)
• Rural Caucus Report (p. 7)
• "Shapp and Shrinks" (p. 9)
• "Reading (PA) Items" (p. 9) 
• "Council on Sexual Minorities" (p. 10)
• "Lebanon Items [Gay League of Lebanon]" (p. 11)
• "Pennsylvania Gays - It's Time" (p. 12)

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA. Notable news in this issues:

• "Wheatland Zapped" (p. 4)
• "Rural Caucus Report" (p. 5)
• "State College [PA]" (p. 5)
• "Reading [PA]" (p. 5)
• "A Personal Expression of Gay Oppression from Lancaster, PA" (p. 12)
• "Northumberland [PA]" (p. 13)

PA Rural Cay Caucus press release disucssing the formation of a permanenet legislative committee, with it's first focus on lobbying for the repeal of Sodomy Statutes.

The Gay Era was a newspaper that reported news of interest from around the United States, with a specific focus on the news surrounding the gay community in Central PA, and provided a central forum for gay communities that were spread out across Central PA.

This issue was labeled incorrectly, and should be April 1976. Noteworthy news in this issue: 

• "Supreme Court Says 'Nay' on Gay" (p. 1)
• "Rural Caucus Report" (p. 5)
• "Governor's Council on Sexual Minorities" (p. 8)
• "Gay Education Day" (p. 12)